Flock & ALPR Cameras in River Rouge, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around River Rouge — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of River Rouge, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 27 of them sit inside River Rouge itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (12), Ecorse (3).
41 of them name an operator in the record: River Rouge Police Department (28), Detroit Police Department (8), Ecorse Police Department (4), Marathon Petroleum Corporation (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near River Rouge in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in River Rouge
The readers mapped around River Rouge break down as 38 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: River Rouge Police Department, Detroit Police Department, Ecorse Police Department, Marathon Petroleum Corporation. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Visger Road — 9 readers
- West Jefferson Avenue — 6 readers
- East Great Lakes Avenue — 3 readers
- Coolidge Highway — 2 readers
- West Vernor Highway — 2 readers
- West Fort Street — 2 readers
- West Great Lakes Avenue — 1 reader
- Alexander Street — 1 reader
- Haltiner Street — 1 reader
- Eaton Street — 1 reader
- Hall Street — 1 reader
- Morrow Street — 1 reader
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around River Rouge — all on the live map above.
River Rouge MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, River Rouge MI PD has captured 74,481 vehicle records. Its network connects to 55 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
River Rouge in the Wayne County picture
Wayne County has 1,133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #330 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.4% nationally. That’s across 1,773,767 residents and 4,007 road miles. By road density that is 0.28 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 42 traffic. Operators named on the record: River Rouge Police Department (28), Detroit Police Department (8), Ecorse Police Department (4).
What’s watching River Rouge
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond River Rouge — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to River Rouge (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around River Rouge
What you can do in River Rouge
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near River Rouge
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).